For some time now, penguins have been the animal of choice in Hollywood. The theatrical success of the 2005 documentary "March of the Penguins" and such animated features as two "Ice Age" films, "Madagascar" and, most recently, "Happy Feet," easily migrated to DVD, spawning all sorts of imitators and piggybackers.Just this week, MGM Home Entertainment came out with a "Family Fun Edition" of the 1995 film "Pebble and the Penguin."Are turtles next? With the $25.5 million opening last weekend of Warner Bros. Pictures' "TMNT," the latest film incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the DVD industry could well see an onslaught of DVDs with turtles -- real or animated -- in the starring role."Almost any success is likely to start a trend in this business," said home entertainment industry analyst Tom Adams, president of Adams Media Research. "This especially holds true in the children's video arena, where recognizable properties or concepts are granted a free pass by players along the pipeline who tend to buy into the theory that it will work if something like it just did."More...
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